Re: [Denemo-devel] lilypond version weirdness

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 09:43 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
[...]
> Denemo is currently outputting \version "2.16" unless you set
> Score->Score Properties->Paper->LilyPond Version
> 
> (eek!, that is some horrible old built-in thing)
> 
> Denemo does have code for detecting the installed LilyPond version,
> but
> it has been disabled for a while now due to some complications (with
> windows I would guess). 

Actually, the main complication is this: if you set the LilyPond version
in the score properties dialog then when you open the same score a year
or so later LilyPond will complain that the version is old. So, instead
the default is for Denemo to output the current (stable) LilyPond
version statement. On GNU/Linux we could pick up the actual installed
LilyPond version and use that (and indeed, we could apply the convert-ly
utility to the Denemo LilyPond output, code to do which is also present
in Denemo, but lying unused).

I presume you are aware that you can specify which of your installed
LilyPonds to use? (Via the prefs, Externals tab).

Richard